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by wdaher 14y ago
Agreed. And I think "lock-in" is an unfair characterization. It's not like you can't switch back to CentOS or Scientific Linux.
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by wdaher 14y ago
I think that's an accurate summary. And I think the point that you can always switch back to CentOS or Scientific Linux is an important one. Ultimately, this is a topic where a lot of people have religious devotion, so for me it's really a
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by wdaher 14y ago
An excellent question. Honestly, because the page was intended at people already running CentOS -- I thought people would be much more inclined to switch a system they already have than to reinstall a brand new one. Clearly I was mistaken :
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by wdaher 14y ago
You can download an ISO from any of these mirrors: https://wikis.oracle.com/display/oraclelinux/Downloading+Ora...
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by wdaher 14y ago
(Disclaimer: I had a hand in a lot of this) That's not quite the intent. Look, here's the deal: I know we all like to think that corporations are evil and the presence of corporate interests actually messes stuff up. But this really is one
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Oracle launches "a better alternative to CentOS"(linux.oracle.com)
157 points by wdaher 14y ago|212 comments
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by wdaher 14y ago
:) that's what we like to hear
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by wdaher 14y ago
It's tempting to say "Oh yes, definitely," but that wouldn't be completely honest. The real answer is, of course, much more nuanced than that. It's not the totally unfettered we-do-what-we-want-when-we-want-to Wild West that was Ksplice-the
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by wdaher 14y ago
Not exactly a joke per se, but take a look at "Improving your social life with git": https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/improving_your_social... :)
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by wdaher 14y ago
Cambridge, MA (or REMOTE). Full-time. Do you like low-level systems programming? Does the idea of hacking on an old-school graphics demo that fits into a DOS MBR in your free time appeal to you? Does "Dazed and confused, but trying to conti
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by wdaher 15y ago
Is mosh installed on the server? If you just normally ssh to the server and run "mosh-server", does it actually do something? (maybe it's not in your PATH?)
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by wdaher 15y ago
Well, that and, this and screen are not mutually exclusive. I run a screen session inside my mosh all the time!
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by wdaher 15y ago
I personally use it in conjunction with screen. For me, it really shines when I'm on a crappy connection (like tethered through my phone or on terrible wifi), or when I suspend my laptop at home and wake it up at work -- the connection is i
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by wdaher 15y ago
Exactly. It just happens to use ssh to bootstrap itself.
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by wdaher 15y ago
I'll confess that I always run mosh with -a because it looks cooler when you see it predictively echoing text that you wouldn't otherwise get.
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by wdaher 15y ago
See also, http://www.itsthisforthat.com/
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by wdaher 15y ago
You might also like this answer on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Whats-it-like-to-be-a-drug-dealer/answe...
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by wdaher 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit#64-bit_data_models has a few examples -- but I think the answer is basically no?
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by wdaher 15y ago
I don't disagree, but I thought it was nicer for there to be a more concrete, actual memory address for the answer. I thought about explicitly stating "sizeof(int) is 4 on this system" in the intro blurb, but that primes you a bit more than
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So you think you know C: the Ksplice Pointer Challenge(blogs.oracle.com)
285 points by wdaher 15y ago|98 comments
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Playboy interviews Steve Jobs (1987)(gizmodo.com)
2 points by wdaher 15y ago|0 comments
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Building a physical CPU load meter(blog.ksplice.com)
8 points by wdaher 15y ago|0 comments
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Gitionary: the git party game(blog.ksplice.com)
5 points by wdaher 15y ago|0 comments
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Super Mario Bros (NES) patched to eliminate wall-walking bug(blog.ksplice.com)
3 points by wdaher 16y ago|0 comments
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1967: Cosmonaut Crashed Into Earth 'Crying In Rage'(npr.org)
26 points by wdaher 16y ago|5 comments
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Won’t You Be My Wireless Neighbor?(nytimes.com)
1 points by wdaher 16y ago|0 comments
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IBM Slide Presentation from 1975(bumbumbum.me)
2 points by wdaher 16y ago|0 comments
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How to hire a product manager (2005)(kennethnorton.com)
3 points by wdaher 16y ago|0 comments
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Fun with HTTP headers (2005)(nextthing.org)
2 points by wdaher 16y ago|0 comments
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The Rosenhan experiment (confirmation bias in psychiatry)(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by wdaher 16y ago|0 comments

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